Saltaire: a UNESCO World Heritage Site

This week we spent a couple of days in and around the village of Saltaire in Yorkshire. I will be blogging about the village in later posts, but for now, here is a taster of what it is like today inside Salts Mill.

This is my offering for this week’s Thursday Doors. I do hope you like the pictures.

The name of the village is a combination of the founder’s surname and the name of the river. Salt moved his business (five separate mills) from Bradford to this site near Shipley to arrange his workers and to site his large textile mill by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the railway.- wikipedia

Thank you for this. We spent an enjoyable afternoon there when we visited our son in the UK a couple of years ago. Truly an amazing collection of art. A fascinating building too. Something we really miss in South Africa. I enjoy your photos, don’t stop.

Oh thanks Liz. I’m sorting out pics of the big vases in the downstairs shop/gallery right now. It’s great to “speak” to someone who knows what a wonderful place it is. I get goosebumps each time I walk in. And all those Hockneys!!!!!
Did you walk around the village too.?

And I lived ”down the road” in Chester and had never heard of this. We even did 18/19th century economic and industrial history for O levels!
Perhaps my history teacher, Mr. Eldridge never heard of it either!

It was a working mill until 1986. Then derelict , then bought by the Silver family and restored to what it is today. It’s one of the most exciting places I’ve been to. Good job Sir Titus Salt didn’t come up in a question in your O levels!